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EMERY (Ger. Smirgel), an impure variety of corundum, much used as an abrasive agent. It was known to the Greeks under the name of anvpa or cr/iipis, which is defined by Dioscorides as a stone used in gem-engraving. The Hebrew word shamir (related to the Egypti ...

ENERGY (from the Gr. tvlpytia; kv, in, tpyov, work), in physical science, a term which may be defined as accumulated mechanical work, which, however, may be only partially available for use. A bent spring possesses energy, for it is capable of doing work in re

TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempus, time, fit or due season), to blend, modify, or qualify by mixing, to combine in due proportions, hence to restrain, calm. A sp

... Dutch with the name of aschenlrikker, or the attractor of ashes. In 1717 Louis Lemery exhibited to the Paris Academy of Sciences a stone from Ceylon which attracted light bodies; and Linnaeus in mentioning his experiments gives the stone the name of lapis elel ...

... yes; Empedocles and his shoe; the horizontal stratification of the EMERSON, W.— EMERY earth; a soft mushroom pushing its way through the hard ground, — all these allusions and a thousand more are found in the same volume. On his pages, close beside the I'.irth ...

... ffer Vernon H. Vaughan (Acting Governor) George L. Woods S. B. Axtell George B. Emery Eli H. Murray Caleb W. West Arthur L. Thomas Caleb W. West STATE GOVERNORS Heber M. Wells (Republican) . John C. Cutler (Republican) William Spry (Republican) 1849-1850 1850- ...